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Gentle Beginnings

Nurse midwifery care that specializes in natural childbirth and waterbirth in a hosptial setting. We

01/19/2024

Happy Friday! Our office will be closing early today 1/19/2024 at 10:30am.

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If you are pregnant and think you are in labor, please call to speak with an oncall midwife.

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Stay warm and enjoy a great snow day!❄️

01/05/2024

To our dearest Gentle Beginnings community,

Happy new year to you all! We wanted to make you aware of some big changes that are happening in our practice. At the end of December we said goodbye to our Haddon Heights/HT office location. This is a huge loss that we all feel so deeply. We wanted to take a moment to honor our patients, current staff and past staff that made that office what it was. We are so grateful that you trusted us with your care and that we have gotten to know you like you were members of our family. Our Station Avenue office felt like home to us and hopefully you too. Our hearts are heavy because you do mean so much to us. This will be a big change but we are still here for you 🫶

With the changes in Haddon Township, we say goodbye to one of our most beloved employees. Sandy worked tirelessly for our patients and touched so many lives. We will miss her greatly. See below for a message from Sandy.

Please come and see us at our new office (798 Centerton Rd Elmer NJ) we will welcome you with open arms and big hugs! More on that space to come! We hope you know just how much you all mean to us and we hope to see you soon.

Love, The Midwives of Gentle Beginnings

From Sandy: “Hi GB family, It has been a pleasure being a part of the Gentle Beginnings team for over 9 years. I will be taking on new position this month elsewhere and am very grateful to have been on such an amazing journey with women supporting women at GB. I am so thankful to have met so many amazing people on this journey, from patients to staff to lifelong friends. From meeting Bernadette at orientation on day one, to having both my boys at Elmer with two beautiful births, to working through a pandemic with a strong group of women. I will be forever grateful to have had this opportunity. I will miss everyone so much! ❤️ Sandy”

12/20/2023

We would like to thank our lovely patient Justina for the amazing cookies and sweet tribute to Gentle Beginnings. They are gorgeous! Justina welcomed baby Gabriel on 11/9/23 and we are so proud of her! And amazed she could do this at 6 weeks postpartum! 😂🧐 Thanks again mama ❤️

12/06/2023

Welcome to the world Selah! Born 11/11/23 into Daddy’s hands ❤️ Mekayla you were a pro at labor and birth. You did all the positions to bring your baby to you!! Congrats and well done!!

07/23/2023

July 11th was a very special day at Elmer hospital!! We are so happy to announce the first set of twins born at Elmer hospital in 15 years!! Happy birthday to Delilah and Autumn! 6lbs 7oz and 6lbs 15oz, and healthy as can be. Bernadette - you are so special. It was a momentous occasion! Thank you for your kind words and trusting us with your sweet girls.

“The Elmer and Gentle Beginnings crew have been nothing short of a blessing for our twins birth story. From the first consultation with Caitlin I knew that myself and my babies were going to be in exceptional care. I traditionally wanted a vbac but God had other plans. I tear up writing this because we were treated like family from the minute we walked through the door and even though I had a c-section the birth of our twins felt very special. Everyone made me us feel safe and secure and truly felt everyone had mom and babies best interests at heart. I wish every mom, whether new or seasoned could experience the personal and loving care that my little family recieved while at Elmer. Special thanks to Waverly for being the support person i needed in my surgery and Karin for always making sure I was ok. And I thank all of the rest of the Elmer crew from the bottom of our hearts 💕”

05/12/2023

GB mamas and community!

Here are a couple of great workshops coming up at If you don’t know about them, check them out! They offer a wonderful variety of pregnancy and postpartum classes, lactation support, yoga classes and other groups!

These topics are so under-discussed in prenatal care - your pelvic floor and postpartum nutrition! Sign up through the Village 😊

05/05/2023

Happy International Day of the Midwife!
Now more than ever, the world needs midwives. And as the United States struggles with a maternal mortality rate that is indefensible and rooted in racial bias, we need midwives to care for all birthing people with a listening ear, an open heart and loving touch. Tell someone today about your experience with midwifery care so everyone can know how it should be done!

Scroll through for some messages from the International Confederation of Midwives. We couldn’t agree more!

05/01/2023

Congrats to Katelyn and her beautiful family. Thank you so much for your kind words! You did a great job, mama. We are so happy for you ❤️

“On April 14th at 12:14am we welcomed our second son, Waylon Ford Rathof. The experience that the Elmer Maternity Team and Waverly delivered to not only myself and Waylon, but our entire family was amazing and unforgettable. We delivered our first son, Dalton Thomas Rathof, with the same team including Waverly, on May 21st, 2020.

The care and delivery that the Inspira Elmer Maternity and Gentle Beginnings offers easily shows why they often rank highest in patient satisfaction and received several awards for Baby Friendly Care. Every nurse we encountered treated us with such compassion, care, and kindness. Waverly has the most gentle touch and immediately made me feel at ease with her presence. We will forever be thankful for the incredible experiences we received through Gentle Beginnings and the Elmer Maternity Team with both Dalton and Waylon.”

Thank you,
Katelyn and Reed Rathof

03/17/2023

With big huge hearts, we welcome the newest Gentle Beginnings baby - Cyrus!! Born 3/7/23. Congrats to Caitlin and Zach. Beautiful job mama, you did it!! We are so proud 👏🌟🌕✨ A little note from Caitlin:

Pregnancy and birth in many ways was not what I expected it to be. As someone who likes to plan and as midwife, I had strong ideas about what it would look like. Of course things in pregnancy, labor and birth rarely follow our plans so while it was very different than I thought, now that our sweet Cyrus is here I can look back and see that it was exactly what it needed to be. I’m grateful how much pregnancy and birth taught me about the need to adapt and to try to surrender. While pregnancy and especially birth was intense and raw, it was deeply transformative and incredibly humbling and I’m so proud. I feel privileged to have gone through the journey that I have supported many women in and know this will make me a better midwife. I feel so grateful for the support and encouragement from all of the midwives and staff at GB and the staff at Elmer- I couldn’t have possibly asked for a better birth team or a more positive labor and birth atmosphere. I’m grateful to all the patients of GB for checking in on me through my pregnancy. But we are the most grateful for our little boy Cyrus Robert French born at 11:11pm on a full moon weighing 8lbs 6oz of pure magic.

03/08/2023

Some lovely and serene pics from the beautiful delivery of Ari Luke Duffield. Born 2/23/23, 6lbs7oz and cute as cute can be! Congrats to Kristin and George! And to proud grandma Annette Guy of our Elmer Maternity nursing staff! Kristin you we are so proud of you and so happy to help you welcome your 3rd baby with us. Great job! 💫✨💛

02/15/2023

Dear Gentle Beginnings mamas, today we are very happy to welcome midwife Gwen McKenney as a part of our Gentle Beginnings family while Caitlin is on leave. She is a midwife with lots of birth experience and is ready to guide you through your natural birth just like Lindsay, Wave, Alex and Bernadette. She will be with us through July. Welcome Gwen! We are so grateful to have you with us!

Gwen McKenney, C.N.M., is a certified nurse-midwife at Inspira Medical Group Obstetrics and Gynecology Elmer and Inspira Medical Group Obstetrics and Gynecology Vineland. She received her
Associates Degree in Nursing from Our Lady of Lourdes Nursing School in New Jersey and an Associate of Applied Science in Nurse Midwifery from the University of Medicine and Dentistry in New Jersey. She is certified by the American College of Nurse-Midwives and licensed to practice in New Jersey.
With more than 21 years of experience as a midwife in the South Jersey community, Gwen is committed to delivering compassionate, patient-centered care. Gwen has attended over 2,000 births and is committed to cultivating a culture of patient safety at all stages of pregnancy and the birthing process.
When she is not working, Gwen loves spending time with her husband, three children and six grandchildren. She loves spending time on the beach, which is her favorite thing about living in New Jersey.

02/12/2023

Welcome baby Griffin! Born 2/9/23 7lbs 8oz. Congrats Nicole! So sweet that he was born on your birthday 🎂 We were happy to help you along the way during this pregnancy and think that Griffin was born just the way he was supposed to be ❤️ We are so proud of you and very happy for your family (especially big sister!)

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798 Centerton Road
Elmer, NJ
08318

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

Website

https://www.inspirahealthnetwork.org/services-treatments/pregnancy-and-childbirth/midwifery

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